Exhibitions, Seminar

A Stone's Throw

18 April - 17 July 2016
In this photographic exhibition, Manchester photographer John Shinnick has captured the words and voices of people who interact with the centre of Manchester, a metaphorical stone’s…

Ben Rivers

25 February - 22 May 2016
Ben Rivers presents his most ambitious work to date. The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is Ben Rivers’ most ambitious work to date. Migrating between documentary, fantasy and fable, and…

CMIST Seminar: Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity over the first decade of life – findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

16:00 - 17:30 10 May 2016
Overweight and obesity are a major public health concern with about one quarter of children leaving primary school in the overweight category based on their BMI. Stark inequalities…

It’s a small world: reconstructing village life in early Roman Egypt through documentary sources.

16:00 - 17:00 10 May 2016
In this paper, Will illustrates some of the different approaches he has taken towards developing a fuller picture of life in the small, rural village of Euhemeria (located in the modern…

Luke Russell (Sydney): Forgiveness, Big and Small (this event is co-sponsored by MANCEPT)

15:00 - 16:30 10 May 2016
Abstract: There are two bundles of claims about forgiveness that often appear together in the philosophical literature. The Supererogation Bundle includes the claims that forgiveness…

Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World

21 January - 21 August 2016
Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and…

New Arrivals

12 March - 20 November 2016
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that have recently been brought into the Whitworth’s collection. Highlighting a contemporary and diverse approach to drawing, they…

Nico Vascellari

25 February - 18 September 2016
Nico Vascellari’s major work, Bus de la Lum draws on the ancient powers of the forest. Light, video and sound explore the legend of a natural cavity located within the woodland of the…

Tibor Reich

29 January - 29 August 2016
A celebration of post-war design alongside an exhibition of Wallpaper from the Whitworth's collection

Wallpaper

29 January - 4 September 2016
Continuing the celebration of post-war design this show features highlights from the Whitworth’s collection of 1950s and 60s wallpapers. At the heart of the exhibition are papers from…

‘“It’s All Incest and Buggery Up There”: Same-sex Desire, Northernness, and a Different Way of Living?’

16:00 - 17:00 10 May 2016
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminar Series Feb-May 2016. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

“The honeymoon of science is over": George Porter and the Establishment response to the "crisis" in science, c.1968-c.1973 - Rupert Cole (UCL/RI)

13:00 - 14:00 10 May 2016
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

Accounting seminar by Sven Modell and Chunlei Yang, Manchester Business School

14:00 - 16:00 11 May 2016
Shareholder value as a strategic action field: a historically informed field study of corporate governance reforms in Chinese state-owned enterprises

CLES: Introduction to Local Multiplier 3 (LM3)

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2016
Local multiplier 3 or LM3 for short, is a tool originally developed by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) to allow organisations to calculate the extent to which their procurement decisions…

Climate Control

11 May - 18 September 2016
We hear about climate change on the news and in the newspapers. Climate change is happening all around us, but this isn’t the time to ignore it, it’s the time to get really, really,…

DemElect seminar: Does Material Hardship Affect Political Preferences?

15:45 - 17:15 11 May 2016
Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham) asks if material hardship affect political preferences? And her answer: depends on the political context Anja argues that preference updating…

Finance seminar by Gyongyi Loranth, University of Vienna

14:00 - 16:00 11 May 2016
Bank Payout Policy, Performance, and Insider Trading in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

Policy, Policy Research and School Based Counselling

12:00 - 13:00 11 May 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminars series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Richard Cleminson (Leeds): ‘Eugenics, Race and “Miscegenation” in Portugal, c. 1925-1960.’

17:00 - 18:30 11 May 2016
Part of our Spanish and Portuguese research seminar series.

The choice for child-care arrangements and consequences for the well-being of families - Melissa Verhoef (Utrecht University)

12:00 11 May 2016
Nonparental child-care arrangements are an important aspect of parents' daily lives. Formal and informal child care (by professionals and relatives or friends respectively) allows parents…

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